Reflecting on a brilliant Melbourne Cup Carnival that featured three G1 winning stayers all sired by stallions standing in Victoria it’s the perfect time to think outside the box and plan to breed a high-class stayer of your own.
Half Yours famously and quite dominantly won both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, careering away on Tuesday as the only Australian-bred runner in a high-quality field, littered with expensive imports, to claim the $10million Melbourne Cup.
Bred by Colin and Janice McKenna, Half Yours is the only stakes-winner so far by imported stayer St Jean (IRE). He was raised and reared on their farm near Warrnambool and his victory was a boon for the local romantics who still believe and dream of breeding a Classic style of horse capable of racing through the ranks and fighting it out on the biggest day of the year.
Stepping back to Derby Day on Saturday and the $2million VRC Derby, a race only ever won by horses bred to Southern-Hemisphere time, we saw a future star of the game in Observer.
A son of shuttle stallion Ghaiyyath (IRE), Observer looks the type of horse capable of winning Cox Plates and the Cups, all while trotting through a 3 year-old Autumn campaign racing against his own age of largely locals.
On to Oaks Day and the $1million VRC Oaks was again won by a Victorian bred and conceived stayer in Strictly Business.
The daughter of Grunt won the rich classic for 3YO fillies at just her fourth start showing untapped depths of talent and stamina stamping her as a staying star of the future.
Gold Trip, the Melbourne Cup winner who also defeated global superstar Romantic Warrior by 3 lengths in a weight-for-age 2000m Turnbull Stakes romp, stands this season at Lovatsville for a fee of $8,800 (incl. GST) with attractive deals available.
Fertile, fabulous looking and with exceptional foals hitting the ground, Gold Trip is a brilliant option for those looking to breed, sell or race the next Half Yours, Observer or Strictly Business.
A grandson of Exceed and Excel, from a brilliant Aga Khan family and returning a CT Short on the Equinome speed gene test, Gold Trip ran as a 2 year-old before becoming a Group winner at three in France, running third in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris.
Gold Trip went so close in an Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe as a 3 year-old, which places him comfortably in the company of the sadly deceased So You Think, The Autumn Sun and the Ghaiyyath's of the stud world as far as pure ability goes.
A stunning specimen, with the Classic racetrack success that we can only dream of and available for a fraction of the fee of some of the Classic sire options in the market.
To learn more about the deals available please call Sam White on 0408 123 428.
